A Good Muslim
In the fine old tradition of making scrambled eggs from smashed eggs, the municipal authorities of Abbottabad, Pakistan are contemplating the exchange of a view of the compound which was a home to Osama bin Laden and part of his more extensive family for six years, with the cash outlay of the curious, coming in droves to a place of great curiosity.For some, it will represent more than mere curiosity. It will become what some might describe as a shrine dedicated to the memory of a man that many Muslims consider their champion.
Muslim resentment of the wider world of non-Muslim religions in countries which have long surpassed Muslim-majority countries in social, educational, technological and economic advances will ensure that the legend of Osama bin Laden will be embroidered and magnified in years to come as the young lion is transformed into the Lion of Islam.
His reputation following his death will equal that of Saladin's.
The gentle leader of a re-awakening of sturdy, fundamentalist Islam, harking back to its glory days, who encouraged greater awareness and love of that incomparable religion of which there were no equals, onlydegraded impostors. The man whose unnerving fascination with the delivery of death to those whom he deemed deserving of it never quailed or thought twice about the horrors of mass slaughter.
It was simply a method of bringing attention to the path of conquest for Islam. No need to mourn lives lost, for they were of no value to begin with, unless they were fully invested in obeisance and total surrender to Islam. "Osama was a good Muslim who fought for Islam. He was a hero to us. I expect in time to see all sorts of tourists here, even Japanese and Americans", philosophized one resident of Abbottabad.
Labels: Heritage, Pakistan, Particularities/Peculiarities
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, May 05, 2011
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